Current developments in generative AI, software engineering, programming, and digital products, with links to original sources.
Claude Code Gets "Mods" — A System for Rewriting Tools from the Inside, Unitree's 6B Model Handles 64 Tasks, and an Experiment That Turns an iPhone into a Second GPU
Meta Open-Sources Its "Muse Gadgets" SDK — Apple Fleshes Out Stricter macOS Permissions, and arXiv Moves to Limit AI-Slop Submissions
Apple to Harden macOS Permissions in Response to New AI Agent Risks; Anthropic Commits $100M to Train 10,000 Engineers; and the Pope's Critique of AI Art
AI Accountants Outpace US CPAs in Speed and Accuracy — Plus a ChatGPT Mac App Vulnerability and Gemini Live's Real-World Guidance
Earendil Releases Coding Agents "Pi 1.0" and "Pi Durable" — FLUX 3 Image Adds 4K Generation, and Japan-Built ELYZA-Thinking-1.0 Goes Free
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast Gets Up to 8x Faster — Microsoft Ships a Streaming Transcription Model, and PS5 Gets AI Upscaling with QSSR
OpenAI Parts Ways with Three Safety Researchers — Amazon and Cloudflare Release decision models in Quick Succession, and ChatGPT Gets Virtual Try-On
AI Agent Posted Over 13,000 Internal Screenshots to a Public Repository — Sub-$8,000 AI Beats the Best Stratego Player, and .si Domain Demand Surges
Barclays Rolls Out Claude Bank-Wide — a ¥2.3 Trillion AI Data Center in Chiba, and a New Company with “Only Two Human Directors”
OpenAI Says It Blocked 'Adversarial Distillation' Targeting Its Reasoning Traces — Frontiers of Self-Improving AI Agent Research, and Figure Sends Retired Robots to a 'Sea of Steel'
